In reply to Ian Rose.

The main issue with that is: There are quite a few plugins around which simply DO NOT NEED updating.

Eg. Regenerate Thumbnails got no updates for over 6 years - because it was working flawlessly. Only after excessive head shaking and strong nudging, the original author started overhauling it.

IWhen looking at its usage statistics, you see that quite a bunchload of users still prefer the 2.x releases. Which might be a) one doesnt trust the rewrite or b) the 2.x AGES OLD release still works flawlessly even in the current WP nightly builds.

Of corpse, I do understand that nowadays, folks think that updates are an indicator if a piece of software has been or has not been abandoned for good. Which is well-meaning, but shortsighted. Because: NTARS.

cu, w0lf.